Great thanks, weirdly he is eating, pooing, talking as normal just not able to move physically but on drugs.

I am in a quandary if he can't move I don't want him to suffer but am not sure if he will recover. Our dog knows something's amiss as she keeps going to see him. Another thing is he really smells, not sure if he is able to wash himself properly.

At the moment he is Lording it up in his crate as we have moved it outside. He now has a sunshade and iced water....

If he's not in distress, I'd give him at least a day or two to see if there's any glimmer of improvement. Different bits of brains can sometimes take over quite complex functions with humans (eg with strokes) and that could happen to him.

The smell could be various things - I'd guess pee on his fur from when he was out and he hasn't been able to clean up. You might be able to get some pet cleaning wipes to help if he makes the medium term because that would improve the way he feels about himself.

Zeph - I was lurking on your other thread but just wanted to say that I think that there is hope.

One of our old family moggies had a couple of strokes in her dotage. Very noticeably weak on one side with severly diminshed movemnt. She could still walk, but as her left side was so weak she just walked around the room in propping herself up on her right side on the wall.

We thought about having ehr PTS but she was still eating happily, toielting normally and purring like a fiend when cuddled- so our opinion was that she was still happy and had a reasonable QoL, so we kept her. She went on for another two years or so and then died in her sleep at home two years later.

What I'm trying to say is that a loss of motor function is not the end of a happy cat. Neurological damage can take a while to improve, but it CAN improve. Don't lose hope.

HI Zep.Veyr sorry to read about Mr Mieaw. Sorry too that you had to see all the cuntishness on the other thread.

You mentioned wanting positive stories - I had a cat years ago who disappeared. We looked everywhere for him, and he turned up on the other side of town in a vets. He'd been in an accident, and was badly hurt. He lost a leg, quite a few teeth, he had a broken jaw, lost vision in one eye, etc etc. He also had brain damage.

He DID change, as he was an outside cat before, that used to go on walks with our dog. After, he mostly stayed in sunny spots in the house, or in the garden if it was warm. He could go upstairs, but not down! He was no longer classically beautiful, but he still was to me.

But he lived out plenty more years (8? 10? can't remember), and lived very happily in a family with children, a dog and other cats.

To add - it could be that he cant move much at the moment - eg he is sore and bruised, as well as a bit zonked from allt he drugs... so may be a bit whiffy at the mo. Certainly ours needed help keeping clean first (we cut his fur back round his bum), but then he gradually got more flexible. He ended up being able to keep himself clean, but there was an area on his side/back which he couldn't reach and used to get a bit matted, which we had to pay attention to.